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How easy is Pashto for Persian (Farsi) speakers?

Going from Persian (Farsi) to Pashto (پښتو) has a composite linguistic distance of 48% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

48% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

30%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

51%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

50%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

100%

Arabic → Arabic

Genealogical kinship

70%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Persian (Farsi) speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Persian (Farsi):

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Tajik

17% distance
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Kurdish

47% distance
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Urdu

55% distance
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Uyghur

63% distance
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Uzbek

66% distance

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